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with a staff of four, including Wiesenthal The centre had open files on about 2,000 cases, however, Wiesenthal estimated that about 150,000 Nazis were involved in war crimes and that his office's extensive archives were just "the tip of the iceberg". According to the centre, about 40,000 Nazis have
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intensified, both sides lost interest in prosecuting Germans, and Wiesenthal's volunteers, succumbing to frustration, drifted away to more ordinary pursuits. In 1954, the office in Linz was closed, and its files were given to the
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In 1959, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal and other Nazi hunters, Eichmann was captured by Mossad agents in Argentina, transported to Israel where he was tried and executed. Encouraged, in 1961,
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The centre in Vienna was housed in a nondescript, sparsely furnished three-room office in Vienna's old
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to increase its availability for users. The Centre is an integral, but independent part of the
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The centre has been responsible for uncovering more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, including
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who may have escaped justice, including those individuals who escaped through the Nazi
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been tried for war crimes since the end of the war, and most were found guilty.
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Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime
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Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Jüdischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes
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who pursued Nazi war criminals. After being liberated from the
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Jewish Documentation Center

Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal
Linz
Jewish
Nazi Germany
Europe
Second World War
Adolf Eichmann
the Holocaust
Nazi war criminals
ratlines
Argentina
Paraguay
Brazil
Chile
Simon Wiesenthal
Holocaust survivor
Nazi hunter
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
U.S. Army
Linz
Austria
Cold War
Soviet Union
Yad Vashem
Israel
Simon Wiesenthal
Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime

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